February Trip to the Disneyland Resort

The dog made her position clear before we ever left — climbed straight into the open suitcase on the bed and lay there, tongue out, daring anyone to zip it. She lost the argument. There'd been rain, and a full double rainbow to go with it, so the trip started damp.

Anaheim was gray in the morning too. First stop was it's a small world, which somehow looks better under an overcast sky — all that white and gold with nothing competing. Walt Disney oversaw that one himself for UNICEF, and it's been running at Disneyland since 1966 after starting life at the New York World's Fair. The tulip room still gets me every time.

Then over to California Adventure, where Cars Land was nearly empty early on. Lightning McQueen was parked in the middle of Route 66 with Red the fire truck behind him, and Cruz Ramirez sat outside the Cozy Cone with almost nobody waiting to see her. Twelve acres of fake Ornament Valley rock and it still reads as an actual desert town from the right angle.

Ended up near the Mickey ferris wheel, sky fully blue by then.